Switzerland Grants Russia's Mikhail Khodorkovsky Visa

Can Stay Up to Three Months in the Schengen Area

By

Andrew Morse

Dec. 30, 2013 11:20 a.m. ET

ZURICH—Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian oil tycoon freed a week and a half ago after spending a decade in prison, has been granted a Swiss visa that will allow him to travel broadly in Europe, the Swiss government said Monday.

The Swiss department of foreign affairs said in an email that Mr. Khodorkovsky had been granted a visa that will allow him to stay for up to three months in the Schengen area, a group of European countries that...